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Racket can supposedly compile standalone packages with the raco compile command (IIRC). Does anyone have experience with this?

butt____hugger 4y ago
They aren't standalone executables, they need to be distributed along with the lib folder that includes the racket runtime.
- sebstefan 4y ago
  Surely the lib can be included statically no like Lua does no?
- nsm 4y ago
  Sorry, I meant to respond to this but went to the parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392704
nsm 4y ago
Doesn't raco make followed by raco exe produce fully standalone (except libc) executables? I believe some platforms need an additional raco distribute step.
- andrewflnr 4y ago
  Oh, raco exe is probably what I was thinking of.
  - sschwarzer 4y ago
    At least in some cases, you need the options --orig-exe (Posix) or --embed-dlls (Windows) to make the binary standalone. For me that worked for command line programs. The options are described at https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html . You can use both options at the same time, regardless of running Posix or Windows.
dunham 4y ago
I haven't used it beyond just trying it out once or twice. But a "hello world" application in the Idris2 language compiles to a 17kb racket file (the default backend is chez, but it also does racket and javascript). If I run `raco exe` on this, I get a 57MB file. On mac, it's only linking system libraries. (For Idris2 programs, there is an Idris support library that is dynamically loaded.) I haven't tested transporting it to another system (my test was on an arm mac, so I don't have another system to test that on).
shakow 4y ago
I do, it was extremely useful to quickly whip out a GUI doing some stuff and share it with colleagues under Windows/macOS/Linux. Cons: - 200MiB archives Pros: - I can develop a GUI doing some stuff on proprietary binary files, extracting & converting data, generating a handful of plots in a couple of days and have all my colleagues enjoy it without any issue.

butt____hugger 4y ago

They aren't standalone executables, they need to be distributed along with the lib folder that includes the racket runtime.

sebstefan 4y ago
Surely the lib can be included statically no like Lua does no?
nsm 4y ago
Sorry, I meant to respond to this but went to the parent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35392704

nsm 4y ago

Doesn't raco make followed by raco exe produce fully standalone (except libc) executables? I believe some platforms need an additional raco distribute step.

andrewflnr 4y ago
Oh, raco exe is probably what I was thinking of.
- sschwarzer 4y ago
  At least in some cases, you need the options --orig-exe (Posix) or --embed-dlls (Windows) to make the binary standalone. For me that worked for command line programs. The options are described at https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/raco/exe.html . You can use both options at the same time, regardless of running Posix or Windows.

dunham 4y ago

I haven't used it beyond just trying it out once or twice. But a "hello world" application in the Idris2 language compiles to a 17kb racket file (the default backend is chez, but it also does racket and javascript). If I run `raco exe` on this, I get a 57MB file. On mac, it's only linking system libraries. (For Idris2 programs, there is an Idris support library that is dynamically loaded.) I haven't tested transporting it to another system (my test was on an arm mac, so I don't have another system to test that on).

shakow 4y ago

I do, it was extremely useful to quickly whip out a GUI doing some stuff and share it with colleagues under Windows/macOS/Linux. Cons: - 200MiB archives Pros: - I can develop a GUI doing some stuff on proprietary binary files, extracting & converting data, generating a handful of plots in a couple of days and have all my colleagues enjoy it without any issue.